If you were in MS or AL, I could agree with you. Get the most conservative candidate who can win the state. In your case, that's Susan and be happy with that. Your state will do no better. She did vote for Kavanaugh.
Case in point. After Snowe resigned, your state elected King. Before that the odious Mitchell and Muskie. I'll take Susan any day over those.
I didn’t say that I wasn’t going to vote for Collins in 2020....I said “We’ll see.”
In my posts in the past, I mentioned Collins voted for Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and the Trump tax cuts. A democrat would have voted “no” on all three.
If the Collins race is close, I’ll vote for her in order to help the Republicans keep the Senate and to help the president.
Susan Rice is going to run as a Democrat....I didn’t even know she lived in Maine. She must be a summer part-time resident. This is news to me, and I’ve been here 27 years.
In 2014, Collins was polling between 60% - 70%. She didn’t need my vote, so I did a write in.
Muskie was before my time...I lived in California for 17 years, and voted GOP while there.
I sent letters to George Mitchell when he was a senator and it was when he was saying the Second Amendment was for “sporting purposes.” I told him that the purpose of the Second Amendment was to give the people a means to fight a tyrannical government. And then I added, “As a former federal judge and as a senator, you should know that.”
Now Mitchell is a consultant in DC, has a young wife and young kids, and an oceanfront home in Seal Harbor, Maine. How nice.
I certainly didn’t “lose” the House in November. You can thank the media, Mueller, and the 45 GOP incumbents who declined to run for re-election for that outcome, as well as dem tricks like ballot harvesting.
I voted for Maine 2nd District GOP incumbent Bruce Poliquin.
He lost, even though he received 2,500 more votes than Jared Golden, the dem challenger.
That was due to “rank choice voting,” which was passed in a statewide vote by dems in the liberal First Congressional District. The Second District people did not want it. Neither the GOP incumbent nor the dem challenger received 50% of the vote, so they had to count the second choice pick of the voters.
William Hoar and Tiffany Bond were the two minor candidates, but were lefties pretending to be Republicans, and their presence in the race tipped the election to the dem, even though he received fewer votes. Tiffany Bond lives in the First District, which is outrageous.
Snowe didn’t resign....she chose not to run for re-election.
I didn’t vote for Angus King, but he was elected Senator because of name recognition....he is a former governor....and because of the far more populated...and far more liberal....First Congressional district. There are a lot of liberals there.
I met Olympia Snowe and her husband in a supermarket aisle here in Maine on Friday, August 27th, 2010. I had a twenty minute conversation her and her husband, Former Maine governor John “Jock” McKernann.
They were both pleasant. At the time, VERY conservative Paul LePage was running for governor for the first time, and Olympia Snowe made it clear to me that she supported his candidacy.
We talked about the upcoming 2012 presidential race. I crossed my fingers, held them in front of Snowe’s face and said, “I hope Sarah Palin runs!” She smiled at me...with a nervous look on her face, and nodded her head.